Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 Update Includes Player Feedback

[Shawn Zipay]

A new update for Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 makes use of a bunch of player feedback. We're looking at fixes, gameplay changes, and more. Does it make it a game that appeals to your sensibilities? That's for you to decide.

I hope you like long changelogs, because this one is fairly substantial.

PLAYSTATION 4
Features

• Added POI completion reward for Mining Town and Village

Code

• Reduced loading times
• Fixed an issue that could cause the save files to become corrupted
• Fixed crash during Party Crasher mission

Animations

• Fixed animation bugs with Sawn-off Shotgun

Graphics

• Fixed Shadows cast by local lights
• Fixed invisible objects on lamps
• Fixed green channel flip in ddna textures on terrain
• Fixed incorrect collision on several building and objects
• Several objects LOD’s and settings tweaks
• Several extreme navigation improvements
• Added new proxy for glass

Gameplay

• Fixed the issue that could cause the player to fall through level geometry during the mission (Quarry Coup, Winery, Lydia DLC)
• Fixed that player can get stuck between level geometry (on Village map, in Dam map Safehouse)
• Fixed redundant extreme navigation on several places on Village and Dam maps

Balancing

• Fixed Herstal Voelpe Collimator unlock
• Fixed KT-R extended magazine unlock
• Fixed ES25 Silencer unlock
• Fixed ES25 Bipod unlock
• Increased ammunition for Sawn-off Shotgun
• Moved Sawn-off Shotgun from sidearm to secondary weapon category

UI

• Fixed inconsistent button icon for “docking laptop” action
• Fixed wrong legend icon for POI’s in map menu
• Minimap readability fixes

Mining Town

• Fixed exploit of respawning AI at POI by changing AI spawn rule
• Fixed issue that made player unable to tag 23S soldiers by using CCTV
• Improved skydome in the afternoon
• Fixed lighting in tunnels in Hotel area
• Fixed extreme navigation near the church, antenna area and dam transfer tunnel
• Fixed issue of destroyed lamps casting light in the safehouse
• Player is now able to go under AC system during Cut Off mission

Village

• Tweaked light brightness on village horizon
• Fixed incorrect animation for hanging on stone wall in several places
• Fixed that player can get stuck on lying tires at Burning Brides I mission area
• Fixed improper size of the axe head collectible
• Fixed broken shimmy lines on stairs model
• Fixed holes in geometry of destroyed church in the Awas Family mission area
• Fixed floating object in Lydia’s hotel room in Kozori

Dam

• Wolves on junkyard POI no longer spawn on game start
• Fixed wrong rotation of trash container that causes animation glitches when hiding
• Several performance fixes
• Fixed cloths on POI
• Fixed AI spawn distance in several outposts
• Minor graphical tweaks
• Fixed floating hooks above the road next to the “Butcher” POI

Missions

• Remains of the Day: Fixed church bells that were ringing during mission
• Awas Family: fixed exploit that allowed player to skip “Exfiltrate” objective after loading last checkpoint
• Quarry Coup: fixed incorrect hint display when player kills Madame Roux
• Bridge: Fixed mission AI zone de-spawn on mission completion or abort
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed misplaced mission marker when player speaks to prisoners during the mission
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed rare bugged mission objective in Slaughterhouse mission
• Black Widow: fixed that dead 23S retries detecting player repeatedly
• Get the Red: fixed that Lydia and Raquel VOs overlap while they escape the complex
• Clear Out: fixed inconsistent use of SFX for mission objective
• Burning Bridges II: fixed computer highlight in scout mode
• Loose Ends II: fixed issue which caused the interrogations not providing meeting location
• Loose Ends II: fixed objective update when entering armory through the roof
• Loose Ends III: fixed mission unlock notification
• Loose Ends III: fixed mission objective issue that caused “kill the target” objective to fail when player exfiltrated mission area
• Loose Ends IV: fixed doubled completion objective pop-up
• Loose Ends IV: fixed issue which caused the interrogations not providing location of Koba’s Body
• Loose Ends V: fixed wrong mission unlock notification
• Opium Wars I: fixed inconsistent spawn point when continuously reloading checkpoint
• Opium Wars I: fixes on interior lights

Lydia DLC

• Fixed issue that triggered restricted zone warning message when player uses drone within mission area
• Fixed issue with interrogation that doesn’t end with killing the victim

Localization

• Added Korean language support
• Improved naming convention [PL]
• Fixed several grammar issues [PL]

Other

• Numerous other improvements and tweaks not listed above

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XBOX ONE
Features

• Added POI completion reward for Mining Town and Village

Code

• Reduced loading times
• Fixed an issue that could cause the save files to become corrupted
• Fixed crash during Party Crasher mission

Animations

• Fixed animation bugs with Sawn-off Shotgun

Graphics

• Fixed Shadows cast by local lights
• Fixed invisible objects on lamps
• Fixed green channel flip in ddna textures on terrain
• Fixed incorrect collision on several building and objects
• Several objects LOD’s and settings tweaks
• Several extreme navigation improvements
• Added new proxy for glass

Gameplay

• Fixed the issue that could cause the player to fall through level geometry during the mission (Quarry Coup, Winery, Lydia DLC)
• Fixed that player can get stuck between level geometry (on Village map, in Dam map Safehouse)
• Fixed redundant extreme navigation on several places on Village and Dam maps

Balancing

• Fixed Herstal Voelpe Collimator unlock
• Fixed KT-R extended magazine unlock
• Fixed ES25 Silencer unlock
• Fixed ES25 Bipod unlock
• Increased ammunition for Sawn-off Shotgun
• Moved Sawn-off Shotgun from sidearm to secondary weapon category

UI

• Fixed inconsistent button icon for “docking laptop” action
• Fixed wrong legend icon for POI’s in map menu
• Minimap readability fixes

Mining Town

• Fixed exploit of respawning AI at POI by changing AI spawn rule
• Fixed issue that made player unable to tag 23S soldiers by using CCTV
• Improved skydome in the afternoon
• Fixed lighting in tunnels in Hotel area
• Fixed extreme navigation near the church, antenna area and dam transfer tunnel
• Fixed issue of destroyed lamps casting light in the safehouse
• Player is now able to go under AC system during Cut Off mission

Village

• Tweaked light brightness on village horizon
• Fixed incorrect animation for hanging on stone wall in several places
• Fixed that player can get stuck on lying tires at Burning Brides I mission area
• Fixed improper size of the axe head collectible
• Fixed broken shimmy lines on stairs model
• Fixed holes in geometry of destroyed church in the Awas Family mission area
• Fixed floating object in Lydia’s hotel room in Kozori

Dam

• Wolves on junkyard POI no longer spawn on game start
• Fixed wrong rotation of trash container that causes animation glitches when hiding
• Several performance fixes
• Fixed cloths on POI
• Fixed AI spawn distance in several outposts
• Minor graphical tweaks
• Fixed floating hooks above the road next to the “Butcher” POI

Missions

• Remains of the Day: Fixed church bells that were ringing during mission
• Awas Family: fixed exploit that allowed player to skip “Exfiltrate” objective after loading last checkpoint
• Quarry Coup: fixed incorrect hint display when player kills Madame Roux
• Bridge: Fixed mission AI zone de-spawn on mission completion or abort
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed misplaced mission marker when player speaks to prisoners during the mission
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed rare bugged mission objective in Slaughterhouse mission
• Black Widow: fixed that dead 23S retries detecting player repeatedly
• Get the Red: fixed that Lydia and Raquel VOs overlap while they escape the complex
• Clear Out: fixed inconsistent use of SFX for mission objective
• Burning Bridges II: fixed computer highlight in scout mode
• Loose Ends II: fixed issue which caused the interrogations not providing meeting location
• Loose Ends II: fixed objective update when entering armory through the roof
• Loose Ends III: fixed mission unlock notification
• Loose Ends III: fixed mission objective issue that caused “kill the target” objective to fail when player exfiltrated mission area
• Loose Ends IV: fixed doubled completion objective pop-up
• Loose Ends IV: fixed issue which caused the interrogations not providing location of Koba’s Body
• Loose Ends V: fixed wrong mission unlock notification
• Opium Wars I: fixed inconsistent spawn point when continuously reloading checkpoint
• Opium Wars I: fixes on interior lights

Lydia DLC

• Fixed issue that triggered restricted zone warning message when player uses drone within mission area
• Fixed issue with interrogation that doesn’t end with killing the victim

Localization

• Added Korean language support
• Improved naming convention [PL]
• Fixed several grammar issues [PL]

Other

• Numerous other improvements and tweaks not listed above

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PC
Features

• Added Steam Cloud support – progress and savedata are kept in user storage now
• Added POI completion reward for Mining Town and Village

Code

• Fixed an issue that could cause the save files to become corrupted
• Fixed crash ‘job manager:Atomic counter underflow’
• Fixed crash during Party Crasher mission
• Fixed crash after attempt to open main menu
• Fixed freeze that occurred while changing the video settings

Animations

• Fixed animation bugs with Sawn-off Shotgun

Graphics

• Fixed Shadows cast by local lights
• Fixed invisible objects on lamps
• Fixed green channel flip in ddna textures on terrain
• Fixed incorrect collision on several building and objects
• Several objects LOD’s and settings tweaks
• Several extreme navigation improvements
• Added new proxy for glass

Gameplay

• Fixed the issue that could cause the player to fall through level geometry during the mission (Quarry Coup, Winery, Lydia DLC)
• Fixed that player can get stuck between level geometry (on Village map, in Dam map Safehouse)
• Fixed redundant extreme navigation on several places on Village and Dam maps

Balancing

• Fixed Herstal Voelpe Collimator unlock
• Fixed KT-R extended magazine unlock
• Fixed ES25 Silencer unlock
• Fixed ES25 Bipod unlock
• Increased ammunition for Sawn-off Shotgun
• Moved Sawn-off Shotgun from sidearm to secondary weapon category

UI

• Fixed inconsistent button icon for “docking laptop” action
• Fixed wrong legend icon for POI’s in map menu
• Minimap readability fixes

Mining Town

• Fixed exploit of respawning AI at POI by changing AI spawn rule
• Fixed issue that made player unable to tag 23S soldiers by using CCTV
• Improved skydome in the afternoon
• Fixed lighting in tunnels in Hotel area
• Fixed extreme navigation near the church, antenna area and dam transfer tunnel
• Fixed issue of destroyed lamps casting light in the safehouse
• Player is now able to go under AC system during Cut Off mission

Village

• Tweaked light brightness on village horizon
• Fixed incorrect animation for hanging on stone wall in several places
• Fixed that player can get stuck on lying tires at Burning Brides I mission area
• Fixed improper size of the axe head collectible
• Fixed broken shimmy lines on stairs model
• Fixed holes in geometry of destroyed church in the Awas Family mission area
• Fixed floating object in Lydia’s hotel room in Kozori

Dam

• Wolves on junkyard POI no longer spawn on game start
• Fixed wrong rotation of trash container that causes animation glitches when hiding
• Several performance fixes
• Fixed cloths on POI
• Fixed AI spawn distance in several outposts
• Minor graphical tweaks
• Fixed floating hooks above the road next to the “Butcher” POI

Missions

• Remains of the Day: Fixed church bells that were ringing during mission
• Awas Family: fixed exploit that allowed player to skip “Exfiltrate” objective after loading last checkpoint
• Quarry Coup: fixed incorrect hint display when player kills Madame Roux
• Bridge: Fixed mission AI zone de-spawn on mission completion or abort
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed misplaced mission marker when player speaks to prisoners during the mission
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed rare bugged mission objective in Slaughterhouse mission
• Black Widow: fixed that dead 23S retries detecting player repeatedly
• Get the Red: fixed that Lydia and Raquel VOs overlap while they escape the complex
• Clear Out: fixed inconsistent use of SFX for mission objective
• Burning Bridges II: fixed computer highlight in scout mode
• Loose Ends II: fixed issue which caused the interrogations not providing meeting location
• Loose Ends II: fixed objective update when entering armory through the roof
• Loose Ends III: fixed mission unlock notification
• Loose Ends III: fixed mission objective issue that caused “kill the target” objective to fail when player exfiltrated mission area
• Loose Ends IV: fixed doubled completion objective pop-up
• Loose Ends IV: fixed issue which caused the interrogations not providing location of Koba’s Body
• Loose Ends V: fixed wrong mission unlock notification
• Opium Wars I: fixed inconsistent spawn point when continuously reloading checkpoint
• Opium Wars I: fixes on interior lights

Lydia DLC

• Fixed issue that triggered restricted zone warning message when player uses drone within mission area
• Fixed issue with interrogation that doesn’t end with killing the victim

Localization

• Added KT-R silencer description to weapon cache
• Fixed hint description that is displayed after clearing all POIs
• Fixed Raquel’s name in main dialogues
• Improved naming convention [PL]
• Fixed several grammar issues [PL]

Other

• Numerous other improvements and tweaks not listed above